OmniWeb 5.1 Beta Sports Updated WebCore
Mac Browser Watch - OmniWeb 5.1 Beta Sports Updated WebCore
by , 7:45 AM EDT, October 7th, 2004
The Omni Group has released OmniWeb 5.1 Beta 1. The updated Web browser includes many improvements, with one of the most notable being an updated version of WebCore, the KHTML-derived rendering engine developed for Safari. There are also improvements to Java, Forms and Printing among others. From the release notes:
Layout and Rendering
- Integrated the latest WebCore rendering engine with enhanced standards compliance, performance, and stability.
- Due to the updated WebCore, many pages which did not render or behave correctly in OmniWeb 5.0, but which worked in Safari 1.2.x, will now work in OmniWeb 5.1. For example, www.gmail.com is now supported.
- We now support the small-caps font style.
- TITLE attribute tooltip support.
- Changing page appearance attributes (like Page Colors, Override Page Styles, etc) no longer requires a reload of the page -- they affect the page instantly, just like when you change the font style.
Forms
- You can now tab between form elements (text fields, text areas, buttons, popups, checkboxes, radio buttons, etc) if "Full Keyboard Access" is enabled in the "Keyboard" preferences in System Preferences.
- We now have a General preference for the behavior of the TAB key.
- It can cycle through only form elements or both form elements and links. The option key reverses the behavior.
- Option-tab no longer inserts a tab character into textarea elements. Control-tab can now be used to insert a tab character into both text fields and textarea elements.
- Fixed the ugly focus ring problem seen on web page form elements such as fields and textareas.
[The full release notes are quite extensive, and can be found at the OmniWeb beta Website. - Editor]
OmniWeb 5.1 Beta 1 is compatible with Mac OS X 10.2 or better. It can be downloaded at the OmniWeb beta Website.
The Mac Observer Spin:
It is interesting that this new OmniWeb release uses an updated WebCore but also works on Mac OS X version 10.2. Apple, by contrast, released an updated version of Safari for 10.2 but it did not include all the improvements found in the 10.3 edition of the same. Kudos to The Omni Goup for supporting users of the previous Mac OS X version.
Observer Comments
I have been using OmniWeb for years. And will for years to come.
However, only after 9 months after OmniWeb 5 was announced has it become a complete replacement of my browsing experience. The list of occasional websites that didn't work with OmniWeb (such as gmail and bungie.net among others) is now empty. The minor problem with the dock icon not updating is all gone. And they even called it 5.1 beta! These people are just too kind - just too kind.
I am using OmniWeb 5.1 this very moment 
:: Buckyball
Oh I almost forgot, two suggestions.
1) Ability to edit a website on the spot; without redisplaying in the source editor. For example, a control-click on a table cell; will display only that table cell - or allow to change its text colour; etc.
2) For site-preferences, the ability to parse out chunks of code. Blocking TMOs banner ads in insufficient. I don't want to see their stupid readers specials either.
:: Buckyball.
P.S. To TMO editors: I have the right not to please you by not watching at your stupid banners or looking at your stupid reader specials.
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